Welcome!

I am Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Beginning in the fall of 2025, I will be a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies. You can find a copy of my CV here.

I am a comparativist with a regional focus on Latin America. I study the roots of democratic resilience, backsliding, and breakdown. Much of my work on these issues examines how organized crime and public insecurity undermine democratic institutions. You can read more about my research and publications here.

I have taught courses on the politics of organized crime, Central American and Latin American politics, authoritarianism, comparative politics, formal theory, and mixed methods. In 2021, I won the Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates. You can find more information about my teaching here.

I have an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.Sc. from Oxford, where I was a Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholar and a member of St. Antony’s College. I was born and raised in San Salvador, El Salvador.